Washington’s Archbishop Removes Exorcist for Saying UFOs Are Likely Demons

An exorcist for the Archdiocese of Washington, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, has been removed from his position after he said that many or most UFO sightings are likely demons.In a statement on Thursday, the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy, said that Mr. Rossetti — who is also a Catholic University professor and a psychiatrist — had been removed because of his UFO comments, which “gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.“There’s a danger here,” the priest said during an appearance on an episode of the “Faith, Hope and Love Ministry” YouTube show that featured a discussion about UFOs and aliens. “As an exorcist, I wanted to raise that danger. And that is that demons like to hide … They don’t want us to know what they’re doing because they’re more effective when we don’t realize it.”He went on to say, “They can kind of get into your head, you know, and manipulate things in the world to influence us to do evil,” he said. “It’s my personal belief that probably many if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons.”Mr. Rossetti also said he thinks Catholics can believe that there is life on other planets, even though he does not personally believe that there is life elsewhere.After being removed as an exorcist, he said in a statement, “I ask forgiveness for any ways that I have not been faithful to the teachings of the Church’s Magisterium, particularly in the cited video on ‘aliens and the demonic.”“I believe it is of the utmost importance to be obedient to the Church,” he added. Another prominent Catholic, Vice President JD Vance, shares the view that aliens are demons. During a March interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Mr. Vance said that he is “obsessed” with questions about UFOs.“I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion,” he said. “I think that celestial beings who fly around, who do weird things to people. I think that the desire to describe everything celestial, everything is otherworldly, to describe it as aliens.”Mr. Vance said that “every great world religion” has “understood that there are weird things out there,” but promised to “get to the bottom” of the UFO question.

Washington’s Archbishop Removes Exorcist for Saying UFOs Are Likely Demons

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